G. Lopes da Silva

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[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@jdflynn My son is 7, finishing up the second grade, and preparing to make his First Holy Communion this Sunday. I am dreading the eventual end of these beautiful years of innocence.

[Edward Pentin @EdwardPentin]

Italian Bishop’s Call to Evangelize Muslims Wins Support From Converts’ Network | National Catholic Register

The St. Nicholas Tavelic Network backs his emphasis on charity and respect in proclaiming the Gospel to Muslims and the necessity of a visible Christian identity.

https://t.co/lkmFr6J7Tc @NCRegister @tavnet_

[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@Truth_matters20 Yet another ignorant statement.

Without Christ, Mary means nothing.

For Catholics, it's all about Christ, regardless of what Protestants say.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Corpus Christi Procession in St. Peter's Square with Pope Pius XII, in the Holy Year of 1950. Also in procession is the Corporal of Bolsena, which contains the blood of a Consecrated Host, which bled when a priest doubted the doctrine of Transubstantiation in 1263.

[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@ChristopherHale Excellent bit of creative writing.

[Save Standard Time @SaveStandard]

“Permanent Daylight Saving Time can intensify bedtime procrastination, deepen sleep deprivation, and contribute to the widespread issue of insufficient sleep already identified.”

[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@PaulinusOfTrier @LifeSite Which position, specifically?

That the SSPX is canonically irregular? That it lacks an ordinary canonical mission? That episcopal consecrations without papal authorization are a serious matter?

Those are not my positions. They are the Holy See's.

[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@fortunatus62560 @RaymondArroyo @MontseEWTN That might have been the original idea, but this appointment turns it upside down. The progressives are not happy.

[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@HeidiSchlumpf Excellent.

[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@holysmoke @ChristopherHale I would say a rosary at each station of the cross for this intention.

[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@PaulinusOfTrier @LifeSite Rhetorically clever, but it avoids my point.

Accusing me of contempt for the Papacy is a curious response. It is precisely because I take the Papacy seriously that I take seriously the SSPX's irregular status and the exercise of ministry without a canonical mission.

[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@PaulinusOfTrier @LifeSite The SSPX operates outside any official canonical structure. They have chapels, not parishes. They have bishops, but no dioceses, etc., and their bishops answer to no one. They are a church unto themselves.

[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@MLJHaynes @EWTN Good. But "prefect"?

[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@deanna_scholz @Bp_Richard_Min The SSPX do not have parishes, only "chapels", as they exist outside the canonical diocesan / parish structure.

[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@Catholic_bro I don't know about that. Bl. John Paul I only reigned for a month, St Paul VI no doubt had good intentions, only God knows Pope Francis' true intentions, and Pope Leo XIV has only been reigning for a year...

[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@PaulinusOfTrier @LifeSite Because you cannot reform the Church from outside the Church.

[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@EddieJamro84189 Have you read the sixth chapter of St John's Gospel?

[Vatican News @vaticannews_pt]

🇧🇷Falando em português, #PapaLeãoXIV enviou uma mensagem aos participantes do 16º Simpósio Nacional das Famílias, que se realiza este final de no Santuário Nacional em Aparecida @CNBBNacional

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Interview of Cardinal Oddi on the Traditional Character of John XXIII

Interviewer: The conclave did not seem to have significant internal divisions between progressives and conservatives, divisions that emerged very shortly afterward.

Card. Oddi: “In fact it has been maintained — and I have no trouble believing it — that Roncalli was voted in by the cardinals close to Ottaviani [Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, pro-prefect of the Holy Office and a noted conservative — Ed.].”

That would demonstrate that Cardinal Roncalli was considered a conservative.

“Exactly. That is how it was: He was considered a conservative because he was one.”

The Roman synod, of which John XXIII was so proud, was an affirmation of traditionalism.

“Absolutely! And Roncalli saw himself fully within it.”

And yet, the image presented of the “Good Pope” is that of a Pope who viewed the changes favorably and who liked to go along with the most progressive proposals.

“I believe I am among those who knew him best. And I can say that John XXIII was a hardcore conservative.”

Hardcore?

“In the sense of remaining bound even to the most traditional forms of piety, of the liturgy, and of the praxis of the Church.”

A few examples?

“Just a few years previously, he had reprimanded me and other young priests for having objected to the opportunity to preserve the apparel of some religious orders, which were frequently as elaborate as they were uncomfortable. He accused us of wanting to destroy the Church! He loved altars full of candles, and he opposed any reduction of the protocol required of cardinals. He recommended the Latin language in his first encyclical, and he continued to wear the oldest hat styles. He was immovable in his use of the cassock.”

What would he have thought of the “Johannine turn” that historiography attributes to him?

“He would never have considered it as such. It happened, but he was not aware of it. Far less did he desire it.”

But the “Johannine turn” happened.

“Yes, but carried out by others, and not desired by him.”

Others?

“Even his closest collaborators. Precisely because I knew him very well, I can confirm that when Pope John convened the Council, he had no intention whatsoever of effecting what happened afterward. He wanted a Council for ‘perfecting’ the Church, and he repeated frequently, and privately as well, that he wanted a beautiful, splendid, pure, and holy Church, so that all might say, ‘This is the Bride of Christ!’ This was his intention. Perhaps there was some simplicity in this.”

In any case, John XXIII, in a phrase during the opening speech of the Council, distanced himself from the “prophets of doom,” and seemed to open a space for the proposals so dear to those who wanted revolutionary changes. Thus, many progressives thought the Pope was on their side.

“Precisely. I know that he wept over this interpretation. He certainly had no intention of offending anyone; he was incapable of launching an accusation. I hold him in high regard, and I am convinced that that was not his expression; it was prepared for him, he saw it written, and he read it. I know he suffered greatly when it was interpreted as an allusion to someone near to him, and in particular to Cardinal Ottaviani. He truly suffered over that. It made him look like a reformer who had stopped carrying out the discipline of the Church. I was a close friend of his; I knew him very well. I can say that, in his holiness, he was the most conservative of men.”

[G. Lopes da Silva @GLopes888]

@PaulinusOfTrier @FredSimonTLM Why complain? Take the win.